Growing Squash Vertically with Inexpensive Arches
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2023
- This year I want to test out the Wilko's rather inexpensive arches that I've seen lots of people use. In this video you'll see how I build them and reinforce the frames with extra mesh and support. Fingers crossed they hold up!
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I bought three of these arches to span a path between two beds. I put long canes horizontally between the arches, where the horizontal bars are, to join them all together then put netting over the whole thing. I gained extra growing area for the cost of a few canes.
Kudos to you, Katrina, you are a force to be reckoned with. I’m very impressed with all you do. Thanks for sharing all your hard work in your garden, it keeps me motivated. 👍❤️😊
I have such a small space in my garden but love growing squash so I’ve always grown them up arches ☺️
I've used those arches for my squash plants too. As you've done I added supports on either side and mesh but I found that putting a bamboo cane across eitherside of the top of the arches added rigidity and more support for my squashes as they developed their fruit. I've had mine in place for a few years now and they're holding up to the elements. Emx
Really well done, Katrina. I am glad to see you reinforced all the footings since I've seen such arches get blown over. One way to make it stronger yet is to use two long rods (wood) to attach all three frames together about one or two feet above the ground. Looks great.💚💚
Thanks for the tip!
@@homegrowngardenyou can also attach all three at top as well. If attached to it, the close by raised bed can provide a good support.
Those arches are looking great!
We also do this with but with chicken wire and use tomato stakes so they pumpkins can grow between frames
Amazing! I've been using the exact same archways on my allotment (with the same reinforcement) to grow jack be littles and baby boo and it's worked every year. They look pretty magical once they are all hanging down. One tip I'd give (and I'm sure you know already!), but then the tiny pumpkins appear, make sure to pull them through the gaps in the garden mesh if you want them to hang. If you leave them on the top, they can get too heavy and the wire will dig into them, making them grow all wonky. Also, be warned that some Jack be littles can be... not so little! Haha! Good luck, can't wait to see your progress! x
I used Wilco arches 2 nd year the gap between the arches ,I put horizontal canes secured with cable ties ,also staked in the ground like you have ,grew peas early season ,now runners and climbing French beans easy to pick 👍
I think it's great, using mesh is a brilliant idea. The cup and saucer vine will be really lovely, those flowers get ginormous. And how easy it will be to harvest the squash.
Thanks so much 😊
great job on those arches. I used T posts and used zip ties to hold the arch to it. Can't wait till an update.
Sounds great!
I have sturdy heavy arches with large spaces starting 4 ft above the ground. I wanted to grow beans and small cantaloupes on them but I have nylon netting that has large stretchy spaces. I saw the sturdy plastic netting that you used and knew that it would be perfect for my situation. I immediately went to one of our local home and garden centers in the hopes that they would carry a similar product here in the U.S. They do carry a product that looks exactly like the one you used for the garden along with another one used for chicken coops. So happy you made this video. Thank you.
I have the same arches, also grow squash up them. So far they have last for 3 seasons but I take them down after every season and store them away for winter. This has worked really well. They have very little rust and go up very easy every time I have had to put them back up. Yours look fab and I cant wait to see them all covered in green.
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Those arches look really good, as they are from Wilko's they will be inexpensive, it was a good idea to stake them 💐🌸👍
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I would like to suggest that you lay mesh over the top of the curved edges on the arches. You could connect mesh to the top curve of the arch using a heavier version of those zip ties, from the top curved outer edge of the first arch to the outside edge of the third. By connecting them, it would add strength and stability in the wind.
Good job, I look forward to your updates ! ,':*}
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I'm growing Kuri squash here in the PNW of the US thanks to learning about it through you!!
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😊 thank you
@@homegrowngarden you’re welcome 😊
Im looking forward to seeing the cup and saucer vines and Squash covering the arches
Great video, as always, but i can see how an extra pair of hands would have been useful 🙂
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I have a lot of those arches for growing climbing peas and french beans, runner beans and sweet peas. Have learnt from bitter experience to stake each one EXTREMELY STRONGLY with four of those plastic-covered 6ft metal stakes. My veg patch is in a fairly sheltered garden but it doesn't take much wind to blow the arches over when they are covered with climbers.
Do they get rusty?
Eventually the joints rust, after about 5 years. The sections of a dismantled arch make useful markers for various purposes
Hi Katrina, I have been using the Wilko arches, my first couple are in their 3rd year and have corroded a bit at the bottom so have to be a bit careful when moving them and pushing them into the soil, but are still ok hopefully for another year. I use mine for growing climbing beans up. I have lashed three together with a gap like yours with bamboo canes horizontally which also make them quite sturdy through the season. I have also a couple of sturdier ones I bought from Amazon which were about £60 at the time they are much thicker metal. I have a couple at the end of a bed with a Wilko one in the middle again with horizontal bamboo cane struts across. These are my squash arches. The netting you used looks like a brilliant solution as I am tying my squash in as they climb currently as there is no structure in the middle of the arches apart from the canes and the rungs, which is a faff to keep an eye on. Definitely going to try the mesh next year.
Hi Katrina, nice job on the arches only I personally would put canes horizontally half way up so that they are all connected to each other. The reasoning behind that is that sometimes sideway pressure is sometimes just as damaging.
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Aha! I was looking for a video like this!
Good luck with that Katrina, I'll be interested to see how it fares with the squash, good idea to add the stakes. We had a couple of those in our garden made into a tunnel with the Clematis net over them and binding them together, it had honeysuckle and a climbing rose over it and lasted for a reasonable time, I'm guessing 5 or 6 years ! I rebuilt the arch in timber with a rebar mesh panel arched over for the rose to climb and this has now been in place for around ten years !
Hey that's great idea you taught me....THANKS 👍👍
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Good job
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You know I've been looking at these, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on these hun, happy times ❤
You are so welcome!
Ohh I have just taken my veggie arches down for the season and after seeing this am maybe starting to regret it? 😄 i can’t wait to see this in a couple of months time!!
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Looks good. I put one of the same type up earlier in the year and I’m growing a Jack be little pumpkin up it. I’m using jute netting over it and it seems to be coping ok, the vine has just about reached the curve at the moment. My arch is sunk into the ground between two tall raised beds which seem to be stopping any unwanted movement 😁
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For the first time I’ve just put up three arches similar to yours on my allotment plot. I bound the legs with waterproof tape since they have to be sunk into the ground and have supported the arches with dahlia stakes. I like your idea of adding a mesh to give it a bit more strength. 🤞🙅 Lets hope it’ll work for a season or two. Good luck and keep growing.
@@TrickyDicky2006 I like your idea of making screws longer to bolt them together. I wish I’d thought of that first. 😕 Instead I’ve used cable ties to make them a bit more stable.
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Thanks it looks good and a really helpful to see how easy it is to do. Be good to see how it's doing later, my friends just put these up for beans. Also you reminded me I need to get some fleece for this winter, any recommendations would be appreciated as the cheap one I bought 2 years ago disintegrated in a horrible mess, so would like to avoid that next time!
May i suggest something to put more strength into your archway Katrina? If you was to visit your local building supplier and buy a couple of lengths of slate batton. Lay them the length of the three seperate arches, tie them securely. Thus your three flimsy structures become one sturdy structure. Fix them securely at the start of bend. If not the fully grown weight of what you intend growing will be too much for any of the single structures.
Wilco only allow two arches per customer per online order. I've just ordered two while listening to your video.
Hi Katrina, arches look great. Just one thing to bearing in mind is that they will probably rust in a couple of years. I've used that sort of stuff and find that I have to replace them every 2 years or so. It's a shame because they look so good.
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Hi I like them arch my and put pant up I have back garden it 10 by 10 have 7 Raise bed with eg a fruit plus flower and pot with pond to my parents he made pond on legs look really nice with flowers round side of pond
The arches look fab! I had one for quite a few years in my garden with clematis growing up and over it. I tried runner beans too, which was very successful but the wind blew the whole lot down after I had harvested quite a lot and that was the end of that
Good to know!
i started from seeds asarina scandens this year... i was not convince...now.. they are just starting i think i will love them so are the hummingbirds
We can buy the same ones here and I use them for growing my squash as well.
Hiya Katrina Thankyou for a visit today will you be using your baby pumpkins for your wedding decorations? Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
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X-tra staking VERY VERY GOOD IDEA !!! spares u any future 'mishaps & regrets' , hah !!!
that's going to look amazing , love
1.4m - here's the web listing www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-24m-garden-arch/p/0298561
@@homegrowngarden thank you ! £12 seem like a deal .
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@@homegrowngarden lol , ill take it 😆
Random question Katrina but what kind of gloves are you using here? 👩🌾 I like how fitted they seem!
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Will you be posting an update on the squashes climbing them frames? I will sub and hit notificatiion bell if so just for that video haha I am thinking they may be a little heavy for them frames be so interesting to see what happens, I really like them Wilko frames They are top notch for runner beans and look amazing with all the flowers, We have one set up infront of a shed door and its asweome to sit under it in the shade on a hot day and watch the bees,
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I have used these arches and found they bent very easily. That being said, I didn’t strengthen them at all so they got worse when exposed to the wind over the year and I had to discard them by the end of the first season.
Jessie at Plot 37 looks like she uses them but braces them together which seems to work very well for her so worth looking at how she’s done it?
should look great
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The arches are great, but they do end up rusty and break, so if you can, reinforce them even more :)
Think I’ll be making a trip to Wilkos. Where did you get the mesh from?
Wickes! www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Heavy-Duty-Plant-Mesh-Green---500mm-x-5m/p/187779
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is there an update on this please?
Hi katrina could you tell me pls where you got yr netting to go on arches I have same arches yrs looked so easy to do many thanks yr plot looks lovley
It’s from Wickes! About £12
Thank you
Just wondering, if they only last “one or two seasons,” is it worth the money to grow the squash?
There must be a cheaper way of doing it, bearing in mind you had to strengthen it?
Good video though.
Thanks as always.
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10 am..excellent construction katrina,seems you have many talents in your locker,are you still considering a patreon account ?.
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Hi, I really enjoy watching your vlogs, lots of useful gardening information. I noticed in this vlog that you mentioned planting white squashes (baby boo I think you said) by the wilko arches. Is this the correct name as I have googled it and can't these squashes. Can you please give me the correct name and where I can get the seeds? Thanks
Premier Seeds Direct sell White Baby Boo pumpkin seeds online so you might like to order from that source.
@@trevorwills3356 Thank-you for your help, much appreciated
Where did you get your mesh? I have the arch up alresdy but didnt realise the mesh was required too
Wickes - www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Heavy-Duty-Plant-Mesh-Green---500mm-x-5m/p/187779
It certainly helps for climbing plants that need something for their tendrils to hold on to.
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How wide are those arches? I would guess 5 1/2 - 6 foot as compared to your height? Also when you end up replacing those zipties get the black ones. They're the ones that are most UV resistant. And "thumping stakes into the ground" is the proper technical terminology, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 😁
I really like those allium! Those are wild!
1.40 meter according to the package she showed in the video. so that’s less than 5 feet
1.4m - here's the web listing www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-24m-garden-arch/p/0298561
encase you missed it the centre arch top pole has disconnected
Yeah I dropped the screw and lost it 🤦🏻♀️
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It would be alot easier to stake the first part of the arch deeply into the ground before the rest is added.
Maybe if I was 2.5m tall 😅
i have the same ones from amazon for like 40..50$ 3rd year.. i keep buyjng them. i painted them with an anti rust black paint.
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Floor-space? You are outdoors. There are no floors, just ground.
They do take up a bit of floor space but very handy as a short cut to the other end to collect your pick and bag of nits .
Beautiful! Luv. I need to start making more vertical gardening. Thank you for the video. Very inspirational. @gardennonsense
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